enamelled gold, modelled as a fauteuil en gondole with lyre and arrow supports after a design by the Imperial architect Leo von Klenze, the chair demonstrates Fabergé’s mastery of enamelling, the deep red enamel which simulates mahogany is fired over a ground hand engraved with the wood grain, the seat is enamelled translucent green imitating moiré silk and embroidered with a triumphal flaming urn in minutely impressed gold leaf.
Chief Workmaster: Michael Evamplevitch Perchin,
St. Petersburg, 1896-1902,
inventory number: 1920.
Miniature enamelled furniture studies are amongst Fabergé‘s rarest creations. The chair is made from gold of seventy- two zolotniks; the highest standard used by Fabergé.
Provenance
The collection of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna.
Recorded as item 466 in the inventory of the Grand Duchess’ possessions compiled in 1917.
The Ratibor Family, Princes of Ratibor and Corvey.
The chair was included in the exhibition of the Imperial Family’s Fabergé collection held in the Von Dervis Mansion on the English Embankment in St. Petersburg March 1902.
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The chair is visible in the archival photograph of the Von Dervis exhibition above,
